The first person to take the name was special effects artist and stuntman Quentin Beck in 1964's Amazing Spider-Man No. 13, by late comic book legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. With his career failing, he decided to use his talent for illusions to become a supervillain -- the obvious alternative career path in the Marvel Universe.

Beck tried to frame Spidey for robbing a museum, but ends up foiled and imprisoned for his crimes. He later joined Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Kraven the Hunter, Vulture and Electro in the first incarnation of the Sinister Six, a supervillain group formed to end the wall-crawler (they still failed), in Amazing Spider-Man Annual No. 1 in 1964.

He's been a regular presence in Spidey comics since his debut, even though he once appeared to take his own life after losing to Daredevil in 1999's Daredevil No. 7 and may have spent some time in hell -- because comics are nuts sometimes.

You can see storyboards on artist Jeffrey Henderson's site. In 2016 he explained to io9 that Mysterio would've been part of a montage of secondary villains getting taken down by Spidey in the movie's opening.

Looks like the character is finally getting to live out his 55-year-old dream of lighting up the silver screen. But will he end up falling into his traditional villain role? We'll find out for sure when Spider-Man: Far From Home opens July 5 in the US and July 4 in Australia.

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